Comment on Re: Delete, Delete, Delete - FCC Initiates Broad Inquiry on Rules to Delete or Amend

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• early_riser@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s what I warned everyone about during our weekly net. We’re tiny fish compared to the telecom giants. Everything above 6 meters is in jeopardy.

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  • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’d wonder if the existing amateur presence would make the bands hard to sell for “pollution risk”. There’s a lot of kit in circulation, and getting it off the market, including secondhand, would be difficult.

    Yeah, they could blow a lot of time and money on FCC enforcement, but it feels like trying to unring a bell. As a telecom, would you be willing to pay for (for example) 148MHz on just the promise the existing users were displaced on paper? That doesn’t mean much when some untrained/curious person finds kit at the Goodwill and tries it out in the middle of your service range.

    Of course, obviously fight for every nanometre of spectrum, but that’s probably a legit argument against reclassification: all they’d get is damaged goods of low resale value.

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    • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Like most dictatorships they’ll just start executing people who use the band. Problem solved.

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  • K0STK@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    According to the OMs in our area, real ham radio is HF. So we’re good.

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